Category Archives: Windows 8

SSH If you are using an ssh client on windows to control a remote webserver and want to setup passwordless logins then you need to create ssh keys. The puttygen command from the putty suite can be used to generate keys in both putty and openssh formats. Download the puttygen program from the following url… Read More »

Ftp Ftp servers can be used to transfer files to a web server or download files from a web server. Windows 8 has an inbuilt ftp server that can be used to do this. Setting up the inbuilt ftp server of windows 8 requires more steps than installing a 3rd party ftp server. However we… Read More »

The default process to shutdown windows 8 is quite lengthy. If you are at the desktop then first you need to go to Start screen, then logout and then in the power option is the shutdown option. It is possible to have a quick desktop icon that can do this in a single step. Create… Read More »

In today’s experiment we are going to install windows 8 on virtualbox and see how well it works. Virtualbox is a very powerful and popular virtualisation tool that can be used to run a variety of oses. Our host os is ubuntu. It means that Ubuntu is installed on hard drive as an OS and… Read More »

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